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28 WILMETTE LIFE . June 18, 1926 WILMETTE LIFE r.lllcago omce: 6 N. Mlchhr:an AYe. TeL State 1111 Teleplaeae ············· · ···.· , ··..·· Wllaette 18:() SUBSCKIPTION PRICE ·..··.·····. ~.00 A YEAR BT Carrier ......···...·····.·.....·. 2Se a ·oath 1181JED FRIDAY OIP BA.CD W"BIDK by LLOYD BOLLII!ITER.. IXC. lJU Central Ave., Wilmette. Ul. · All communications must ".>e accompl\nled by the name and address of the writer. Articles for publlcatlen must reach the editor by Wedne·day noon to Insure appearance 1n · current Issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, nbttua.ry, notices ot entertainments or ottter affairs where a.n admittance charge Is publiBbed, wUl be charged at regular advertising rates. Entered at the post otnce at Wilmette, :!lllnols, as mail matter ot the second class, under the act or March 8. 1879. Health Protection A LL up-to-date doctors and dentists arc much more interested in health protection than in health recovenr. Everv medical student in our leading medical schools is taught the supreme Yalue of preventing- disease. The "·a tchword of the modern medical man is Prophylaxis, which being translated is ·prevention. That lesson dot tors might have learned from eng-ineers · and laborers of Yarious sorts. The good civil et.l gineer. for example, sees to it that bridges and road are kept in good condition. He does not allow them to deteriorate so far as to need radical rebuilding. The good painter also recom- . mend5 that houses he painted so frequently as to fore tall decay. Rut . the outstanding practitioners of thi~ wise prevention are community health offic~rs. They guard their respective communities against the attacks of communicable diseases like typhoid fever. It is their especial work to keep the water and milk perfectly pure. to urge upon the legislators in their community the passage uf such health measures as \Yi11 put the f orcc of law behind health protection. They inspect regularly the stores \Yhere edibles arc sold. They prevent people from coming in contact with patients haYing commnnicable diseases. · Our attitude toward these public sen·ants should be one of gratitude and thorough co-operation. Vve should be thankful to then1 for their efforts to keep from our children, especially, such dread diseases as infantile . paralysis. \V e should thankful to them for helping to lower the percentage of communicable disease, for it is a fact that even in spite of increase in population the . number of comnnmicable diseases has been decreased. due without doubt to the untiring actiYities of health conunissioners and nurs~s. Let us then give them the hearty co-operation that the yalue of their \York so richly deserves. kinds occupies their minds and bodies to the exclusion of less profitable activity. ·But during July and August 'vhat shall children do? Eating and sleeping fill up perhaps 12 of the day's 24 hours. ~'hat sha ll children do during the other 12? Hang around the house wearing out their own tempers to say nothing- of t l;~ir ,. mother's? Plav in the streets, go to mOYtcs, read hooks ht;nc heel up in the._ corner? ~o, there are better things to dq. Children may do a number )f better things in summer. They may take acl\·antage of the opportunities of S\\·imming and bathing offered at the various beaches. They may engage in games and exercises at the recreational centers. They may go to the summer camps of \Yhich there are manY on the ~hores of hodie~ of water in \\'is~onsin and :\Iichigan. Best of all. hO\Yever. they may spend a summer on some farm. This last pos~ ihility \\·e recommend most highly. £-\ boy or a girl \Yho has never lived for even a few weeks on a farm will he deplorably ignorant of many very important facts. It seems sad, though it is not uncommon. that a grcnn1 person cannot tell the di ffercnce bet \Yecn a street scraper and a plo\\·. Perhaps yoll yourself cannot tell how oats·, peas, beans and harley grow. but you ought to know by their appea ranee the difference between oats and wheat. A summer on a farm \Yill n·yeal the difference to an active hoy or girl. Keep children l1usy in the summer! BACK yARD ,BALLADS The 01' Gellar Door · Our ba:;cmcnt has c'mcnt all over the floor Fn "·e go out through a hack cellar door. 1t ain't one door, hut two insteadEn Pa can lift it with hans and his head! It split s in the middle en opens both ways En we set en we slide-us childrC'n that pla~,· s! Once <i ul' nail stuck out of a hoard l·:n Georgie slid do\\·n en his pants was all torcd! En . cratchcd his leg with En it didn't get ,,·ell for En Pa says, "If Georg it' 1 think 1'1.1 tan a part of 1 .. ....... 1 I ~ a big red streak more'n a week! is go in' to slide his hide!" I ~fa savs 'at Georgie's too little to play \\'ith ~ther children-en slide that way! Ta usc lH.: 's ' j cs t t wo-cn the others is four En slidi.· too rough on our cellar doPr! She sent 'em all home en picked Georgie up En carried him in to play with our pup: But Georgie he yelled-en started to cry Till ~fa ga\'c him dough to make a small pic. \\'hen it was done we et it all upGcorgic got most-en a picre for the pup. En Pa told George 'at nc\'cr no more ~fu!'-t he tear his pants on the ol' cclla·r door, En scratch his leg with a long red . car By slidin' on hoards where big nail s arc, l·nlcss he's sure 'at when he'd cry ~f am a would bake us all a hig- pie! I' Community Publicity director of publicity of the Illi11ois Chaml 1t' r nf Cnmmcrcc, before the Illillnis Commercial SccrcJ.qrics .·lssociation, Sprhzgfirld, Ill .. }!Ill(' 9, 1926.) (fl.rt ract frnm the address of Lester H. Cnll 1y, -H. A. ~fiLr.~. I J-L\ YE Keep Children Busy be kept busy! .:\ normal. healthy child is a storehouse of cont inuottsly generating energy. This energy if not employed in good ways will be employed in bad ways. It is up to the older people, parents and teachers especially, to see that thi s energy is employed in good ways . Children "·ill d estroy and irritate if they do nut build up and please. Parents and teachers must make it easy for children to build up and please. During the school year from September through ] une children are kept profitably busy in school. School work of various CHILDHEX m~1st hetn as keel to talk to yon on " . . fccti,·e Communit,- PublicitY." It i~ a broad, inspiring and" important factor in tO\\·n-building. It is not merely "getting something in the paper." Through publicity you may take :t disorganizccl. poverty stricken, down-at-heel, hopeless community and remake it. .\nd right here I \\·ant to point out to you an accepted saying, timetried and proved: "Show me a copy of your ne\\·spaper and I will te11 \'Otl what kind of town vou have." Fix that in your mind. Then ,~·hat is the first thing to do? I say it is to see that the ne\\·spaper prospers. If ink is this powerful, then use ink. Rut "·hen you g.o out to use ink do not conceive the idea that your local editor is a good. reliable old \\·ark horse, ever faithful, who is to be turned ont after a hard dav's work to hunt his o\\·n grass and find th~ softest spot on · the hard ground to sleep on. I have \\' Or ked on ne\vspapers, trade papers and magazines for more than twenty years. ~Iy first job, just off the farm, was on an Illinois weekly in a town of, at that time, 1.700 people. I hav e \\"Orkccl in many towns of many sizes and under many circumstances. I have traveled pretty n1uch over the Cnited States and I knO\Y the saving stands: "Show me a copy of your newspaper and I \\·ill tell yon ""hat kind of town von have." In an o~ganizecl "·ay develop. ff yon can. faith in advertising in your local newpaper. Show the publisher that you, and your chamber of cotnmerce, and the n1en behind your chamber of cotnmerce, are his firm friends wishing him business success. \Vc do hope they don't hurry with the ~trcrt widening work in the business section. The lake bas hecn so cold we haY~n't had tl1c ncrYc to get into it ·yet this year and we'd like to go ~.wimming in the nice little moat in front of the othr<: \Yhcn it rains again! TO JANE ARN'T , ' ., Tt seems that l'm the \Vho boy~friend knC\": the litt le girl-childBut T thot that she for~ot Before snow turned to rain .. Paddling the . amr red canoe \\'ith tinsel waters dancing l·nder the same han-e!-1 moon. 1t's then that I remember. Fe>rgct. child-girl, please forget, For T haYc finishc(l remembering. · -H.G.S. ., ""' One oi the mon.· n·nical members oi the fair SC'X who adorns our c~litoriat sa net um ,,·as mo,·ed, unon reading the aho\'e offrring, to comment "T\\'as . eYer thus!" DAWN Thr dm('n's (Irs! flamill.rf shafts of light asrrnd, }"rt sc.l·athcd iu fn{f.CIY 111.\'S/rr~· of mnrn Grw\' s/,·r and SNl in ha:::r tnqrthrr blrnd, Va.ri11c frnmisr nf crratinns ~;rf wzhnm. Tl"ith r<'tr\' honrvrd {Jrrat!t ilzat sc.,·rlls T hlindlr frtl. and raqrr hr.fl tn srr Tltt {111lsinr1 undNrHrrrnt nf wwr.~t That Tin/,·s aT! lifr ·with grrat rtrrnit_\'. Ill)' hrast. 'this tltrnl1hino hrart must drin!.' its 7'fn' (Ill Of .Tunc. nnd lifB. nnd . earth's shrrr ln1·rlinrss; . These rnnr 7ural( mm-tal lif>s arr still. Struc!.· dtnn1' c.crith hraufy thr)· enwwf rxprcss. -Ln"rrL \Vex. As we tol(l the Princ rss. who took part in it, the Xew Trier high school pageant was hetter than v.-e expected. And that really wasn't such faint praise, for \Ve had expec ted something quite good. THE SIJAVE.